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To: Goldbug Guru who wrote (13978)	1/26/1999 2:57:00 AM
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CA Announces Unicenter TNG and Jasmine Support for Sun's Jini Sun Demonstrates Unicenter TNG As First Working Reference Management Platform for Jini ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999-- Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced plans for CA's Unicenter TNG® and Jasmine(TM) to support Sun's revolutionary Jini® technology, simplifying large-scale deployment of business and consumer-based information technology. At a press conference in San Francisco today, Sun demonstrated Unicenter TNG as an ideal reference management platform for Jini. Unicenter TNG was the only management solution demonstrated at this event. Unicenter TNG is the first enterprise management solution to manage Jini technology across heterogeneous infrastructures. Unicenter TNG will be empowered to discover, monitor and secure all Jini-enabled devices and services, and automate any appropriate corrective actions. Unicenter TNG itself will also be registered as a Jini service, allowing any Jini-enabled application or appliance to avail itself of Unicenter TNG functions. Jini-enabled management applications, in particular, will benefit from this capability, since they will be able to leverage Unicenter TNG's sophisticated reliability, availability, and security facilities on demand. Jasmine is expected to be one of the first database management systems to be integrated with Jini. Jasmine will enable developers to quickly create multimedia applications that utilize Jini-enabled devices as part of their business applications. It will also provide a dynamic and persistent store for keeping track of various Jini devices in the network. In addition, Jasmine will provide distributed object services to Jini devices. ''In an increasingly complex computing and communications environment, all sorts of intelligent devices - from elevators and industrial equipment to cell phones and pagers - will have to interact on an on-demand basis,'' said Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy. ''Through Jini technology, Unicenter TNG and Jasmine will be able to fulfill their mission of being the primary management and development platforms, respectively, for such an multi-faceted interactive digital universe.'' Sun's Jini technology is a system architecture that supports a flexible, networked, digital environment made up of computing, storage, display, entertainment and communications devices. Jini technology provides the capability to quickly and easily form an impromptu community of computers and devices that can communicate with one another and with the network. ''Jini addresses the need for a simplified way to share resources in an increasingly complex computing environment that's populated by a lot of unwieldy, bloated applications,'' said Mark Tolliver, president of Sun's consumer and embedded group. ''With Unicenter TNG and Jasmine, CA is providing the management services and multimedia development toolkit to make Jini work in the world of corporate IT.'' CA also plans to work with its development partners to promote Jini technology as a solution to issues of complexity and flexible business process automation. ''CA solutions are positioned to immediately support extensions to Jini devices and appliances as they are made available by other co-members of the Jini community,'' said Gupta. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA - news), the world leader in mission-critical business computing, provides software, support and integration services in more than 100 countries around the world. CA has more than 13,000 employees and had revenue of $5.1 billion in calendar year 1998. For more information about CA, please call 516-342-5224 or email info@cai.com. CA's World Wide Web address is www.cai.com. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.